Art. 22.
The marriage certificate, in which the parties shall declare that they take each
other as husband and wife, shall also state:
(1) The full name, sex and age of each contracting party;
(2) Their citizenship, religion and habitual residence;
(3) The date and precise time of the celebration of the marriage;
(4) That the proper marriage license has been issued according to law, except in
marriage provided for in Chapter 2 of this Title;
(5) That either or both of the contracting parties have secured the parental consent in
appropriate cases;
(6) That either or both of the contracting parties have complied with the legal
requirement regarding parental advice in appropriate cases; and
(7) That the parties have entered into marriage settlement, if any, attaching a copy
thereof. (67a)
Art. 23. It shall be the duty of the person solemnizing the marriage to furnish either of
the contracting parties the original of the marriage certificate referred to in Article 6 and
to send the duplicate and triplicate copies of the certificate not later than fifteen days
after the marriage, to the local civil registrar of the place where the marriage was
solemnized. Proper receipts shall be issued by the local civil registrar to the solemnizing
officer transmitting copies of the marriage certificate. The solemnizing officer shall retain
in his file the quadruplicate copy of the marriage certificate, the copy of the marriage
certificate, the original of the marriage license and, in proper cases, the affidavit of the
contracting party regarding the solemnization of the marriage in place other than those
mentioned in Article 8. (68a)
Art. 24. It shall be the duty of the local civil registrar to prepare the documents required
by this Title, and to administer oaths to all interested parties without any charge in both
cases. The documents and affidavits filed in connection with applications for marriage
licenses shall be exempt from documentary stamp tax. (n)
Art. 25. The local civil registrar concerned shall enter all applications for marriage
licenses filed with him in a registry book strictly in the order in which the same are
received. He shall record in said book the names of the applicants, the date on which
the marriage license was issued, and such other data as may be necessary. (n)
Art. 26. All marriages solemnized outside the Philippines, in accordance with the laws in
force in the country where they were solemnized, and valid there as such, shall also be
valid in this country, except those prohibited under Articles 35 (1), (4), (5) and (6), 3637
and 38. (17a)
Where a marriage between a Filipino citizen and a foreigner is validly celebrated and a
divorce is thereafter validly obtained abroad by the alien spouse capacitating him or her
to remarry, the Filipino spouse shall have capacity to remarry under Philippine law. (As
amended by Executive Order 227)
Chapter 2. Marriages Exempted from License Requirement
Art. 27. In case either or both of the contracting parties are at the point of death, the
marriage may be solemnized without necessity of a marriage license and shall remain
valid even if the ailing party subsequently survives. (72a)
Art. 28. If the residence of either party is so located that there is no means of
transportation to enable such party to appear personally before the local civil registrar,
the marriage may be solemnized without necessity of a marriage license. (72a)
Art. 29. In the cases provided for in the two preceding articles, the solemnizing officer
shall state in an affidavit executed before the local civil registrar or any other person
legally authorized to administer oaths that the marriage was performed in articulo
mortis or that the residence of either party, specifying the barrio or barangay, is so
located that there is no means of transportation to enable such party to appear
personally before the local civil registrar and that the officer took the necessary steps to
ascertain the ages and relationship of the contracting parties and the absence of legal
impediment to the marriage. (72a)
Art. 30. The original of the affidavit required in the last preceding article, together with
the legible copy of the marriage contract, shall be sent by the person solemnizing the
marriage to the local civil registrar of the municipality where it was performed within the
period of thirty days after the performance of the marriage. (75a)
